Vegetable Rava Upma / Rava Khichdi made in the Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker. Rava Upma is an easy and popular South Indian breakfast. Rava Upma is a thick porridge made from dry roasted semolina, cooked along with various vegetables and seasonings. This is a delicious and warm breakfast, a great way to start the day along with a hot…
Rice & Grains
Chickpeas Pilaf / Chana Dal Pulao – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
This is a guest post from Khushboo Agarwal Murarka. This is an attempt to feature delicious home-cooked meals in everyday life. Chana Dal Pulao / Chickpeas Pilaf made in Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker. This is a one-pot vegetarian dish made with split yellow chickpeas, rice along with simple spices and ghee. Enjoy with yogurt or raita. It is Monday…
Vegetable Pilaf / Pulao – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
Vegetable Pilaf or Pulao is an easy one pot rice dish mixed with a variety of vegetables and mildly flavored with various spices. We will make this in the Instant Pot. You can also use the same recipe to make it in a traditional pressure cooker. As you can imagine, this is a one pot…
Lentil & Vegetable Khichdi / Masala Khichdi – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
Lentil & Vegetable Khichdi or Masala Khichdi made in Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker. This is a one-pot vegetarian dish made with lentils, rice and vegetables along with simple spices and ghee. This is the epitome of comfort foods all over India. Khichdi is best cooked in a pressure cooker, so the Instant Pot is…
Brown Basmati Rice – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
One of the reasons to love the instant pot is perfectly cooked rice. You don’t need to keep that extra rice cooker anymore and can free the counter space. Even though I love white rice, I try to include more and more brown rice in our diet as it is more nutritious than white rice (well, debatable!)….
Beet Pulao / Beetroot Rice – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
Beet Pulao / Beet Rice made in Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker. A quick, easy and nutritious dish. Enjoy with yogurt or raita. Recently I tried ordering produce from imperfectproduce. They are creating a marketplace for produce that goes to waste as it does not look perfect to be in a supermarket, but is as nutritious…
Basmati Rice Pot-in-pot – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
Want to cook rice in the serving bowl or along with a lentil or curry? Pot-in-pot or PIP Rice is the perfect solution for you. You might find it interesting that this is actually not a new thing for Indian cooking. We have been doing this for a long time with stovetop pressure cooker. Now…
Jeera / Cumin Rice – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
One of the reasons to love the instant pot is perfectly cooked rice. You don’t need to keep that extra rice cooker anymore and can free up the counter space. I have shared the Basmati Rice recipe before, however I actually prefer a little more flavor to my rice. One of the regulars in our house if…
Couscous & Vegetables Medley – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
Couscous & Vegetables Medley made in Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker. You can also call this Vegan Couscous Pulao. This is very quick and delicious. It can be eaten as a side or salad. I used Isreali Couscous from Trader Joe’s in this recipe. Isreali Couscous is also called pearl couscous or maftoul. It is larger…
One-pot Chicken Biryani – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
Chicken Biryani in Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker. This is a one-pot Chicken Biryani, with fragrant rice and tender chicken pieces cooked in spices and caramelized onions. When this biryani was cooking, the whole house had the fragrance of the amazing something cooking in the pot. It was hard to wait! This recipe is different than the traditional…
Moong Dal Khichdi / Pongal – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
Moong Dal Khichdi is a simple dish made with rice and lentils, tempered in ghee with cumin seeds. This is also referred to as Pongal in South India. This recipe is to prepare Khichdi in Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker. It takes 20 minutes or less and is a perfect comfort meal for weeknights. Khichdi is very light and…
Idli Batter – Instant Pot
Idli and Dosa are traditional South Indian foods, which are also popular all over India. I shared the recipe for Idli some time back, so this time I am sharing the recipe for preparing Idli Batter in Instant Pot. Being a North Indian and not growing up making idli’s from scratch at home, I used to have a hard…
Perfect Jasmine Rice (Two ways)- Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
Perfectly cooked Jasmine Rice in Pressure Cooker or Instant Pot. Try this foolproof jasmine rice and check out recipes for other rice types. Having rice with every meal is a common practice in many of Asian cultures. Even my mother-in-law likes to eat rice almost everyday. I made this jasmine rice in the Instant Pot, which…
Perfect Basmati Rice – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
One of the reasons to love the instant pot is perfectly cooked rice. Being a north indian, I prefer white basmati rice over any other variety of rice. You don’t need to keep that extra rice cooker anymore and can free the counter space. What is Basmati Rice? Basmati is a variety of long, slender-grained…
Instant Pot Dalia Pulao (Broken wheat or Bulgur Pilaf)
Craked Wheat Upma / Bulgar Pilaf / Dalia Pulao made in the instant pot. Bulgur wheat cooked with vegetables, garlic and spices. Dalia is popular all over the wheat-consuming regions of North India. It is a kind of dried cracked wheat, which can be consumed as a sweet or savory dish. Dalia has more fiber and protein,…
Steamed Idli (Savory Rice Cakes) – Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
Idli is a traditional south indian breakfast, which is also popular across India. It is a savory rice cake, made by steaming a batter consisting of lentils and rice. This recipe makes steamed Idli in the Instant Pot. Idli is eaten with sambar and chutney. This is also touted as one of the most nutritious indian breakfast….